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Date:      Thu, 04 Dec 2003 07:40:41 +0200
From:      Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@ofw.fi>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?
Message-ID:  <3FCEC8D9.90109@ofw.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20031203151708.V69957@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <3FCDCC7D.5020306@ofw.fi> <20031203151708.V69957@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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Doug White wrote:

>Maxtor has a diag tool that goes onto a floppy that you could run. I have
>this exact disk in my sparc64 here and the first time I used it, it kept
>running over bad sectors and generally causing mayhem. Running the full
>scan with the tool, it prompted to fix some problems, then the bad sectors
>went away. I reinstalled the OS to clear out the broken files and I never
>had any problems afterward.
>
>The program is called PowerMax and is available from the downloads section
>
>under either diagnostics or utilities.
>
I've tried running PowerMax on the drive with a through scan but no 
errors were found.

Sincerely,
Dan Naumov



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